Issue #257 - Lessons Learned, and more

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Hey, back for another week of game dev news and tutorials. Enjoy!

Worldbuilding (Game Writing and Game Design) - Worldbuilding overview covering how to create engaging, immersive game worlds where players want to invest their time and energy.
gamedesignskills.com

How we cut down our Domain Reload from 25s -> 6s - We, like probably most of you, also hate waiting for script compilation & domain reloading. Making a minor change and waiting for that long sucks. So we (mostly my colleague) looked into what we had to do to make it better.
old.reddit.com

c# Clean Code: Best Practices for Using Action and Func - Discover the best practices for using Action and Func delegates in C#. This guide covers when and how to use Action and Func, along with tips to write clean, concise, and maintainable code.
dev.to

The tutorial is a lie - I'm sitting in a room with a guy who just spent several hours with our unfinished game. The conversation isn’t exactly pleasant.
adammirkowski.substack.com

How to use Cursor AI with Unity - My search to get it to work with unity often led me to tutorials about changing the mouse cursor — not quite what I was after. So, I thought I’d share my own experience on getting Cursor to play nice with Unity. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Prithvi Bharadwaj

Step-by-Step Guide to 3D Scanning Objects at Home - Alexey Gorinov talked to us about 3D scanning of a birch pole surface and shared a detailed tutorial on the entire workflow, discussing the choice of equipment, camera settings, the shooting process, and post-production.
80.lv

Get the biggest edition yet of our URP e-book, now updated for your Unity 6 projects - This latest edition is the biggest version yet of the URP guide. As with previous editions, it’s the result of deep collaboration between its main author Nik Lever, a graphics programmer with 30+ years experience with creating real-time 3D content and a Unity user since 2006, and senior engineers at Unity.
Unity

Videos

Procedural Animation in Unity: Environment Interactions [FINAL] - Learn to code the state machine that powers our procedural animation in this final tutorial of the series!
iHeartGameDev

How to Serialize Interfaces in Unity (Drag and Drop Support) - Serializable Interfaces in Unity give you the ability to drag, drop, and serialize objects that implement a specific interface in Inspector fields, enabling powerful, type-safe assignments. Using a custom attribute, you can restrict assignments to components implementing a particular interface. Or use an open generic type that supports serialization of references, enforcing both base types and interface types.
git-amend

I Tried Making A Particle System - Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw?
Acerola

Introduction to the Render Graph in Unity 6 - Render Graph helps Unity's Render Pipeline optimize runtime rendering--that better performance provides broader and safer access for creating your own features. In this tutorial we create a dither effect Renderer Feature by using a Full Screen Shader Graph material with render graph's optimized resource management.
Unity

10 Game Design Lessons from 10 Years of GMTK - Game Maker's Toolkit just turned 10 years old! Here are the ten biggest lessons I've learned from the last decade of learning about game design.
Game Maker's Toolkit

5 Ways To Be A Better Game Dev. It Worked For Me At Least... - It's over 10 years at this point since I started game development. I've made a ton of mistakes along the way but I also learned a ton and grew a lot in those 10 years and those growth and learning opportunities led me to finding a little bit of success
Soul Engine Studio

Assets

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geometry-toolkit - A library for procedural geometry creation and manipulation in Unity
ara3d Open Source

QuickRuleTileEditor - Easily and quickly create rule tiles in Unity.
stalengd Open Source

UnityVolumetricCloudsURP - Volumetric Clouds for Unity URP (Universal Render Pipeline).
jiaozi158 Open Source

unity-domain-reload-helper - A couple of attributes that help disabling Domain Reloading in Unity easier
joshcamas Open Source

Unity-AI-Behaviours - Giving AI/NPCs in Unity some abilities like being able to hear and respond to sounds.
KampinKarl1 Open Source

FitForScreen - Dynamically fit uGUI Image to the screen. You can select Stretch, Fit, Fill.
tetr4lab Open Source

TimelineExtensions - Now you can edit Volume properties in the Timeline more easily without writing code
ShiinaRinne Open Source

procedural-animation - A procedurally animated spider in Unity using inverse kinematics.
jerejoensuu Open Source

CommentComponent.cs - Adding comments to Inspector via a component in Unity
yasirkula Open Source

GitNity - Unity editor plugin for a git integration with Unity projects
meaf75 Open Source

AssetsTools.NET - Read and write unity assets/bundle files, based on https://github.com/SeriousCache/UABE
nesrak1 Open Source

unity-graphic-settings - Generic graphic settings UI components
insthync Open Source

ProtoPromise - Robust and efficient library for management of asynchronous operations in C#/.Net.
timcassell Open Source

unity-project-template - This repo represents the ideal starting point for new OOP Unity projects. It includes best practices for project structure and C# coding standards.
SamuelAsherRivello Open Source

Fab.com Free Assets - Limited-Time Free (Until 11/19 10AM ET) including: Military Airport, Hyper Outliner, Forest Animals Pack
Fab.com

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Spotlight

Effulgence - The glow of a distant galaxy comes to life in symbols. Peaceful images alternate with strange creatures and machines. Explore the mysterious world and be prepared - it might strike at any moment.

[You can wishlist it on Steam and follow them on Twitter]
Andrei Fomin

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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